Freedom as security against arbitrary interference is not a means-end confusion

Evidence

9. The considerations that led Paley and the new liberal tradition to prefer the idea of freedom as non-interference are not decisive. Notwithstanding those allegations, there is no confusion of ends and means involved in the idea of freedom as security against arbitrary interference. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1225

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Political freedom is constituted by institutions, not by the absence of actual interference — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 22; True liberty is resilient security against interference, not merely its absence; Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1207 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• True freedom collapses the separation between means and ends #qualifies (0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 124